Ana González
Vice President of Business Development
iPronics
Dr. Ana González is currently VP of Business Development at iPRONICS. Former R&D Manager at EPIC (European Photonics Industry Consortium), she has a solid network at photonic industry with a large experience reaching out commercial partners and new adopters of PIC technologies. Her expertise lies in the development of optical systems for telecom and datacom.
She received her bachelor’s degree in chemistry from the University Autonomous of Barcelona (UAB) and her PhD degree from the Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICN2).
Presentations
Optical Interconnects for Next Generation of AI Systems
Data Center providers are facing new challenges related to the needs of AI applications that are constantly increasing their demand for computational power and their requirements for low latency and low power consumption networks. In this context, Electronic Packet Switches (EPSs) present limitations in terms of bandwidth scalability, flexibility and cost. In this talk, we will present the potential of optical switching, in particular the one based on silicon photonic software-defined solutions, to complement or even replace EPSs in AI clusters and their possible applications in scale-up and scale-out locations.